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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

Description: Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including construction of Penstock 2 and Powerhouse 2; East portal Tunnel 4; Adit 5, backfill on flowline, incline railroad No. 2, Adit 3 Tunnel 2, 84" flowline installation, site for Powerhouse No. 2, Penstock No. 1, and Powerhouse 1 construction. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1912 - 1913
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction [Penstock 2, & Powerhouse 2 construction, East portal Tunnel 4, Adit 5, backfill on flowline, incline RR #2, Adit 3 Tunnel 2, 84" flowline installation, site for PH #2, Penstock #1, & Powerhouse 1 construction, installation of Breeches Joint (penstock 1), Tunnel 1 intake.]

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Powerhouse No. 2 construction, including pouring walls and sluicing below Powerhouse No. 2; Camp 7; crushing plant; generator room; Construction at Dams No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4; Intake at Dam 1. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including excavation for Powerhouse 1 site and penstock path, steel up for Powerhouse1 walls, Powerhouse1 in framing stages, Powerhouse1 construction site covered with snow, concrete chutes for Powerhouse1, concreting Dam No. 1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for transmission line, Powerhouse1: switchboards, transformers, oil switches, pressing Unit 1 rotor, generation room, bus room, Unit 1 shaft on bearings, pressing runner on shaft, tanking transformer cores, sub-floor wire conduit layout, 150kV Bus Room.

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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek. Includes views of gravel pit, sluicing Powerhouse No. 2 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Powerhouse 2 under construction; Units 1 and 2 at Powerhouse 1; Powerhouse 2 switchboard, generator, Hoist No. 2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator assembly; Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Big Creek Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7; Planing mill, cement warehouse, kitchen, sawmill, incline railroad, meat house, mess hall, road construction, machine shop and blacksmith, general office at Camp 2, general warehouse, construction of Crusher Washer Plant, hospital operating room at Camp 2, dining room, gravel storage, operator's cottage in snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (and intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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